The advertised specs from the afedri laniq website are pasted below. Since the topic may be quite confusing, ive described the same thing here from different point of views. It offers a broad range of spectrum analyzer and demodulation capabilities. Free for public use as long as im not using them please use simon browns sdrradio client to access my radios. Expert electronics company developed the expertsdr2 software to control ham radio equipment of its own design. It features a 14 bit 80 mss analogtodigital converter, a highperformance fpgabased digital downconverter and a highspeed 480 mbits usb2. Other useful information would include your experience with similar products, infomation on a product that you would purchase instead of this one, and so on. The ham radio receiver of the 21st century is mostly software. We categorize the programs into general purpose software, single purpose software, research software and software compatible with audio piping. Linrad sdr software for linux and windows general purpose. One way to connect an sdr and transceiver is by using a relay box to disconnect the sdr when transmitting automatically.
Software defined radio resources ham radio science. Quisk is a software defined radio sdr and is the software that controls my receiver and transmitter. A sdr receiver can be as simple as this rtlbased sdr. The small sdr hardware pictured above is an entrylevel unit. An sdr is a radio where the radio behavior is defined by software, not the user interface behavior. While not a standalone sdr, this one made our list anyways.
Sdr iq firmware update procedure spectravue software download version 3. This is used to get rid of the dc spike in the middle of the display. If the i and q of software defined radio are your nemesis, read. While the concept of sdr is not new, the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital electronics.
It may interest ham radio enthusiasts, hardware hackers, tinkerers and anyone interested in rf. Software version for the colibrinano allows you to harness all the potential of the receiver. This entry was posted in new products, news, shortwave radio, software defined radio and tagged afedri, afedri laniq sdr, afedri sdrnet, dan robinson, fenu, laniq sdr, sdr, software defined radio on april 10, 2020 by thomas. It is called a software defined radio or sdr for short. If you know of a program that is missing please leave. Sdriq firmware update procedure spectravue software download version 3. Our mfhf converter for software defined radio will allow you to listen to mf and hf through your existing software defined radio sdr. Laniq sdr features stand alone software defined radio 0 30 khz to 1700. Describe your experience with the rfspace sdriq software defined receiver and spectrum analyzer and tell us why you give it the rating you did required. Afedri have recently begun shipping their new software defined radio called the laniq. This page hosts the configuration information needed to use my online software defined radios. On this page we will attempt to list, categorize and provide a brief overview of each software program. Sdriq seems to be very much plugandplay with windows 10.
Designed for the commercial, government, amateur radio and shortwave listener communities, this. But to use it as a panadapter for my eagle i needed a way to control both hdsdr and my transceiver. That provides a way to view and listen to all that can be received by the sdr, not just ham bands but any signal from 10khz up to 2ghz. I want to bring your attention to the ham it up v2.
However, these sdr servers are relatively simplistic in nature, and doesnt allow you access to all the controls and adjustments that modern pc based sdr software allows. Software defined radio sdr has all the potential of revolutionizing ham radio because. Sdrs and digital decoding from the radioreference wiki. A userfriendly windowsbased software defined radio software for supported receivers.
Sdr, software defined radios products category is a curation of 48 web. Zeus radio is a modern software to work with a variety of amateur radio receivers and transceivers. Designed for the commercial, government, amateur radio and shortwave listener communities, this software provides a powerful interface for all sdr users. If the i and q of software defined radio are your nemesis. The mechanical size of the laniq sdr is same like for afedri sdrnet. It is making near military grade receiver performance available to ham radio operators. I noticed all of the major radio companies are extremely unwilling to add iq input and output. However, you need to source a few extra components to. For those of us whose interests lie in radio, encountering our first software. As the use of sdrs grow, so does the list of possible applications. This is the modern day equivalent to designing and building your own superhet transceiver, which a lot of hams used to like to do.
In the early 1980s, i joined a project working on softwaredefined demodulators for military use. When working hf, this is very useful as it allows you to quickly home in on cq calls and other activity. Open source application supports rfspace netsdr and sdrip radios or the sdriq14 isdr for apple. When paired with free sdr software running on a pc, it can serve as a beginners ham radio receiver or as a. The rtlsdr can be used as a wide band radio scanner. It operates with with an external conventional receiver, rfspace sdriq. It is relatively simple to use compared to other sdr software and has a simple set up procedure. Add a software defined radio sdr to your transceiver to make a realtime panadapter a panadapter allows you to see all of the radio stations currently transmitting across an entire band. Airspy is a line of popular softwaredefined radio sdr receivers developed to achieve high performance and affordable price using innovative combinations of dsp and rf techniques. This method of accessing software defined radio receivers around the world and provides a great basic introduction to the operation and the capabilities of sdr radios. Typical applications are radio listening, ham radio, swl, radio astronomy, ndbhunting and spectrum analysis. Sdriq used today with sdrradio console software free. Hdsdr former winradhd is an advanced version of winrad, written by alberto di bene i2phd. There are now dozens of software defined radio packages that support the ultra cheap rtlsdr.
We have a full overview of the installation procedure on our quick start page. Im an electrical engineer, so programming my own sdr software is what is appealing to me these days in the hobby. Designed for the commercial, government, amateur radio and shortwave listener communities, the software provides a powerful interface for all sdr users. This page describes how to safely connect a software defined radio to your transceiver using a dxertr2 relay box to create a realtime spectrum analyser panadapter to. The ham it up upconverter works with the most common sdr platforms to create a ham radio. Afedri sdrnet can be used together with map65iq software when working with linrad or sdrradio software.
The pmsdr is a small, lowcost, hf bands full coverage software defined radio receiver that use a computer usb port and delivers iq audio signals to the pcs sound card and one of the few sdrreceivers with full coverage from 0,1 to 72 mhz. Add a software defined radio sdr to your transceiver to. Powersdr works with softrock and flex radio hardware for windows custom version available for apache labs winrad supports several sdr radios for windows general purpose. You can enjoy receiving radio communications more with supported receivers. Quisk rhymes with brisk, and is qsk plus a few letters to make it easier to pronounce. Typical applications are dxing, ham radio, radio astronomy and spectrum analysis. Questasdr powerful and flexible, crossplatform software defined radio application sdr. Decoding rtty using dm780 digital master part of ham radio deluxe. Designed for the commercial, amateur radio and shortwave listener communities, the console provides a powerful interface for all sdr users. Quadrus sdr hardware digitizer sdr software receiver.
Traditional ham radio users will also enjoy the sunits signal strength. As part of a debugging exercise a sdriq was plugged into the development windows 10 64bit system, the drivers were downloaded and installed automatically, the sdriq was found and started first time. Other useful information would include your experience with similar products, infomation on a product that you would. Qsk is a q signal meaning full breakin cw, and quisk has been designed for low latency cw operation. The sdriq is a 14bit software defined radio receiver. Laniq sdr standalone sdr april 10, 2020 no comments laniq sdr features stand alone software defined radio 30 khz to 1700. Builtin scheduler architecture provides integrate plugins, plugins kits and multi ui. Note that all sdr software will have tx iq adjustments and will need to be checked in a similar fashion. The rtlsdr is an ultra cheap software defined radio based on dvbt tv tuners with rtl2832u chips.
If you find the information somewhat redundant, it is because it is. I personally believe its the best sdr upconverter currently available. Sdr, software defined radios products category is a curation of 48 web resources on, dream drm receiver, the pecker, sdrdx osx and windows sdr software. Operate a software defined radio from anywhere in the world.
All the previous pages dealt with the hardware side of sdr. The application is compatible with the sdrip and netsdr and also sdriq and sdr14 using a usb to ethernet server. Softwaredefined radio sdr is a radio communication system where components that have been traditionally implemented in hardware e. It is a near zeroif quadrature software defined radio sdr. When i look at iq, i cant help myself to think about rotary encoder and.
This article provides a list of commercially available softwaredefined radio receivers. Software defined radio sdr subjects pertaining to sdr operations and technology. It was designed by martin pernter iw3aut and its similar to the softrock xtall project, but with some improvements and. Airspy, a high quality approach to softwaredefined radio. Perseus is a software defined vlflfmfhf receiver based on an outstanding direct sampling digital architecture. Comments on eham about ham radio deluxe can be found here.
Hardware for softwaredefined digital filtering had already been built in several places. The dsp10 is an amateurradio, softwaredefined 2meter transceiver that can be built at. It was designed for installing in one two of aluminum boxes manufactured by hammond the manufacturer part number of boxes is. The sdr control software was written using qt crossplatform application framework from nokia, so both windows and linux software versions can be compiled and have similar graphical user interface gui. Providing several software defined radios, a rfspace sdriq and a softrock ensemble rx ii. Sdrplay feeds ifiq to software defined receivers like hdsdr. Big giant list of free rtlsdr software android apps for. Kgsdr is windows application to demodulate analog signals from iq signal.
Resources listed under software defined radio category belongs to software main collection, and. Hdsdr is a freeware software defined radio sdr program for microsoft windows 2000xpvista7. We encourage programmers to share any additions to improve the software. The software is being continually developed with new features added on a regular basis. Weve also created a yahoo group for cutesdr discussions. Ive checked them out and paged through but never taken the tests to be a full ham operator. It sometimes seems as though sdrs are magical black boxes. Why dont more radios come with iq input and output. This is a description of using iq data aka analytic signal representing a signal. Spectravue is a windows based spectral analysisreceiver program primarily used with the sdriq, sdr14, sdrip, netsdr, rf capturing.
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